Saturday, March 17, 2012

Hit & Run accident involving a motorcycle

Kansas Highway Patrol Troopers say, at approximately 11:10 p.m., Friday, a motorcycle was struck by another vehicle causing the motorcycle to crash.

A preliminary accident report shows that both the motorcycle and the second vehicle were traveling southbound on Interstate 35, near mile marker 226.6 or near 75th Street in Overland Park. The motorcycle, a 2005 Honda, was being driven by a, 41-year-old, Gardner, Kansas man when an unknown vehicle struck the motorcycle from behind, causing the crash. The unknown vehicle did not stop at the scene and continued traveling southbound on Interstate 35.

Troopers say that the motorcyclist was wearing a helmet and sustained non-life threatening injuries in the crash.

No other information was immediately available regarding the crash or the suspect vehicle. Anyone with information on the crash is asked to call the Kansas Highway Patrol.

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